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CARY GROVE HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB

CARY GROVE HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,534 to it, the largest being JAMES B TAFEL FOUNDATION ($17,250). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$64k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$21k
Net assets
$124k
3/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Cary Grove High School Booster Club does

Mission

Fundraising for high school activities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Provide support for high school students and activities.

    $32,499 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $32,499.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($6k) Expenses 100 ($39k) Net assets 100 ($93k)2022 Revenue 1197 ($67k) Expenses 209 ($81k) Net assets 86 ($80k)2023 Revenue -10 ($-555) Expenses 83 ($32k) Net assets 51 ($48k)2024 Revenue 1932 ($108k) Expenses 159 ($61k) Net assets 102 ($95k)2025 Revenue 1134 ($64k) Expenses 91 ($35k) Net assets 132 ($124k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (1134)Expenses (91)Net assets (132)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $56k to $108k (+95%).

$93k
$80k
$56k
$108k
$124k
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of CARY GROVE HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$33k
’21
−$13k
’22
−$32k
’23
$47k
’24
$29k
’25
21
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $6k → $1k.

Funder
'17
'18
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
2
1
1
2
1
1

1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of CARY GROVE HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

CARY GROVE HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

84%
largest funder
97%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 81% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

97% of CARY GROVE HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL
NY

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’20
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $684 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CARY GROVE HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin45% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)84% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

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Questions and answers

Who funds CARY GROVE HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB?
CARY GROVE HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,534 to it, the largest being JAMES B TAFEL FOUNDATION ($17,250). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CARY GROVE HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $20,534 in grants to CARY GROVE HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CARY GROVE HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB?
JAMES B TAFEL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $17,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CARY GROVE HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing